- Sep 12, 2007
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For those looking at buying this stove. This is my 4th winter with the stove. It looks great and put out alot of heat. The autoclean system was a nice idea but it basically S*%Ks.
Where do I start.
The autoclean works this way. Every now and then the floor of the pot slides out and everything dumps into the ash pan. It does this about every 2-4 hours depending on what you are burning. These are it's flaws:
1. the stove completely shuts down during autoclean. The whole process from intitial shutdown to autoclean back to full operation takes about 1/2 hour or more.
2. after each autoclean the stove depends on the ignitor to restart. They have an issue with them buring out. Bad combination. Remember this happens about 8 times per day.
3. about 1/2 of the pellets I have used create a clinker that sticks to the pot and it doesn't drop into the ash pan. Stove doesn't know this so it restarts dumping more pellets on
the clinker. this process continues until the pot over flows and creates a potential burn back into the fuel drop, or it just wont restart resulting in a min pot temp.
4. stove is suppose to be multifuel but all the corn I have burned creates hard clinkers that often don't drop. I cannot use corn if I am not at home becasue I have to be there for the autoclean and push the clinker down.
5. the burn pot is very hard to clean. it is very difficult to remove so it is hard to scrape out. Also ,there is fragile porcelin(sp) rod which covers the thermo that sticks into the burn pot which is very hard to clean around. I have cracked it once doing so.
Hope this helps
BIH
Where do I start.
The autoclean works this way. Every now and then the floor of the pot slides out and everything dumps into the ash pan. It does this about every 2-4 hours depending on what you are burning. These are it's flaws:
1. the stove completely shuts down during autoclean. The whole process from intitial shutdown to autoclean back to full operation takes about 1/2 hour or more.
2. after each autoclean the stove depends on the ignitor to restart. They have an issue with them buring out. Bad combination. Remember this happens about 8 times per day.
3. about 1/2 of the pellets I have used create a clinker that sticks to the pot and it doesn't drop into the ash pan. Stove doesn't know this so it restarts dumping more pellets on
the clinker. this process continues until the pot over flows and creates a potential burn back into the fuel drop, or it just wont restart resulting in a min pot temp.
4. stove is suppose to be multifuel but all the corn I have burned creates hard clinkers that often don't drop. I cannot use corn if I am not at home becasue I have to be there for the autoclean and push the clinker down.
5. the burn pot is very hard to clean. it is very difficult to remove so it is hard to scrape out. Also ,there is fragile porcelin(sp) rod which covers the thermo that sticks into the burn pot which is very hard to clean around. I have cracked it once doing so.
Hope this helps
BIH